NEWS

04/02/2017

Chantal Wright will be reading at the second launch event for the anthology Currently & Emotion, edited by poet Sophie Collins, which is taking place on February 22 as part of the 2016-17 Miriam Allott series at the University of Liverpool. Click here to book tickets.

03/11/2016

27/09/2016

An excerpt from Véronique Tadjo’s fictional autobiography of Nelson Mandela, written for young people, is included in a specialPrésence Africainecahier(September 2016): Véronique Tadjo. Écrire, traduire, peindre / Writing, Translating, Painting.

15/08/2016

An excerpt from Yoko Tawada’s ‘Portrait of a Tongue’: An Experimental Translation is included in the forthcoming anthology Currently & Emotion: Translations edited by Sophie Collins, to be published by independent publisher Test Centre in September and available for pre-order now.

Anton and Piranha (author Milena Baisch, Andersen Press, 2013) has been nominated as an IBBY 2016 UK Honour Book in the Translation category, alongside SF Said for Phoenix (David Fickling/Corgi Random House 2013/2014) in the Writing category and Laura Carlin for The Promise (author Nicola Davis, Walker Books, 2013) in the Illustration category. Anton and Piranha “explores issues of friendship and fitting in with the lightest of humorous touches in a delightful translation” (IBBY UK press release). Anton and Piranha also received the German Children’s Literature Award in 2011 and was shortlisted for the 2015 Marsh Award for Children’s Literature in the UK.

26/8/2015

The programme for the 2015 Birmingham Literature Festival is now available. Chantal Wright will be moderating ‘Writing Home’, a reading and discussion with writers and translators representing a number of the UK’s immigrant communities, on Thursday 15 October, 7 – 8.15 p.m. in Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery. Tickets can be purchased here.

Words Without Borders is featuring a blog post by Chantal Wright on the process of translating “No Light in the Windows” by Zoran Drvenkar.

2/12/2014

The latest issue of online literary magazine Words Without Borders is dedicated to young adult fiction in translation and includes an excerpt from Zoran Drvenkar’s Standing in the Rain [Im Regen Stehen] by Chantal Wright, entitled “No Light in the Windows”.

22/10/2014

Anton and Piranha (Andersen Press, 2013) is on the shortlist for the 2015 Marsh Award for Children’s Literature in Translation. The shortlist was announced following the Children’s Translation: Reaching Out to Schools event on October 21, 2014. The other titles on the shortlist are Letter for the King (trans. Laura Watkinson), The Adventures of Shola (trans. Margaret Jull Costa), My Brother Simple (trans. Adriana Hunter), Waffle Hearts (trans. Guy Pusey) and The Good Little Devil (trans. Sophie Lewis). Congratulations to all the shortlisted translators!